Concept note: transformative growth in Eastern Africa: catalysts and constraints

Abstract

The Sub-Regional Office for Eastern Africa (SRO-EA) of the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) is holding the Twenty First Session of the Intergovernmental Committee of Experts (ICE) in Moroni, Comoros. The ICE is a body set up by the General Assembly of the United Nations and is the statutory organ of the ECA office for Eastern Africa. The main goals of the 21st ICE will be to examine issues related to the mandate and operations of SRO-EA, assess the socio-economic situation in the sub-region, create partnerships to develop regional cooperation and integration, and to identify and discuss the bottlenecks and catalysts to transformative growth in Eastern Africa. The 21st ICE will be held in plenary sessions organized as follows: Presentation of the macroeconomic and social developments in Eastern Africa 2016-17; Report on the third session of the Africa regional forum on sustainable development; leveraging the blue economy; Regional infrastructure and industrialization; Enhancing the competitiveness of the regional tourism industry; Banking on success? Leveraging the banking sector better for accelerated structural transformation in Eastern Africa; Comoros: strategies for an emerging country.